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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780365503321

Autore

Sneeringer Julia

Titolo

Winning women's votes [[electronic resource] ] : propaganda and politics in Weimar Germany / / Julia Sneeringer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908712-3-7

0-8078-6051-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

305.4/0943

Soggetti

Women - Germany - History

Women - Suffrage - Germany

Women's rights - Germany

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Political Mobilization of Women; 1. Onward, My Sisters; 2. Stabilization and Stability; 3. Culture versus Butter; 4. Saviors or Traitors; 5. Baby Machine or Herrin im Hause?; Conclusion: Women and the Language of Weimar Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote. Analyzing propaganda aimed at women voters, this study shows how various groups struggled to reconcile traditional assumption about women's interests with the changing face of the family and female economic activity.